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Helping Patients Outsmart Overeating, written by an eating disorder therapist and a physician, offers a new paradigm for doctors and health care providers who treat patients with eating and weight concerns. It describes how both parties are frustrated by weight-loss plans and programs that fail in the long term, and presents a science-based explanation for why diets fail and how they, in fact, may adversely impact patients' mental and physical health. The authors illustrate how providers can truly help patients by using empathy, compassion, and motivational interviewing. They explain how helping patients strengthen skills related to self-awareness, emotional management, stress reduction, appetite attunement, perseverance and effective self-care can improve self-efficacy and support sustained motivation in improving health and wellness promoting behaviors. The issue of weight stigma is addressed, along with how professionals' view of their own eating and weight affects the patient-provider relationship. This book introduces clinicians to tools from eating and success psychology, Intuitive Eating, Lifestyle Medicine, and Health and Wellness Coaching, within a weight-inclusive paradigm. It also details a collaborative model for working with ancillary disciplines to give patients and providers the comprehensive support needed for lasting success.
Author Notes
Karen R. Koenig, M.Ed., LCSW, is a psychotherapist, eating coach, blogger, educator, and international author of six previous books on eating, weight, and body image. An expert or the psychology of eating, she has been in practice for more than thirty years.
Paige O'Mahoney M.D., CHWC, is a physician, health and wellness coach, certified Intuitive Eating counselor, and founder of Deliberate Life Wellness, LLC, a collaborative coaching and medical education initiative whose mission is to promote compassionate care, highlight resources and experts, and change the conversation about weight and wellness among patients, clinicians, and policy makers.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In a caring manner, psychotherapist Koenig and physician O'Mahoney provide insights into the psychological and physiological barriers to weight loss faced by both doctors and patients. This introductory work begins by acknowledging the frustration that medical providers feel about their often limited success in this field. One key issue, according to the authors, is that medical students are seldom trained in how to compassionately approach patients who are struggling to lose weight. A listing of common patient complaints about the medical system's failings, presented in a balanced manner, will help medical professionals understand that this is more than a matter of patient noncompliance. Discussions of the process of weight loss, insights into the psychological issues behind dysregulated eating habits, and the dangers of yo-yo dieting are supported with cited research. Care is taken to acknowledge that medical providers need support in helping their patients resolve issues that interfere with healthy living. The authors carefully lay out the information (in text that can feel repetitive) and end most chapters with useful tips. Health professionals will find this a solid guide; the material is also accessible to non-professionals. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
According to the savvy pediatric-eating disorder clinician team of Koenig and O'Mahoney, the focus should be on how and why rather than what we eat, and the goal should be improved health rather than weight loss. The authors begin by comparing doctors' and patients' complaints and challenges when discussing issues of high weight. Doctors, they claim, may be dealing with issues of weight bias and can be frustrated with a patient's seeming noncompliance. Patients are often oversensitive to lectures and shamed by their failure to get control of their eating. Diets can kill motivation, and self-care may be the key to help dysregulated eaters, who eat when not hungry or already full, to become normal eaters. Each chapter lists specific strategies and has occasional sidebars, called brain food, that list open-ended questions for additional discussion. Although technically aimed at health providers, these insightful suggestions will help both patients and doctors to collaborate more successfully on these issues.--Smith, Candace Copyright 2016 Booklist
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| 1 Why Doctors Are Frustrated: (Help, I'm Losing Patience with My Patients!) | p. 9 |
| 2 Why Patients with Eating and Weight Concerns Are Frustrated (Can't Doctors Trade in Their Stethoscopes for Magic Wands?) | p. 23 |
| 3 How Diets Kill Motivation and Make People Fatter (Who Knew?) | p. 41 |
| 4 Introducing the Dysregulated Eater (Hint: You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover!) | p. 63 |
| 5 How Dysregulated Eaters Become "Normal" Eaters (It's about Self-care, Not lust Health Care!) | p. 89 |
| 6 Why Don't Patients Listen to Me about Eating Better? (Why Don't I Listen to Myself?) | p. 119 |
| 7 Strategies to Help Patients Achieve Their Eating and Health Goats (I Get It-We're Talking Health Gains, Not Weight Loss!) | p. 141 |
| 8 Supporting Patients and Providers in Attaining and Maintaining Success (Finally, the Right Piescription!) | p. 163 |
| Our Stories | p. 189 |
| Notes | p. 193 |
| Bibliography | p. 215 |
| Resource List | p. 229 |
| Index | p. 235 |
| About the Authors | p. 245 |
